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Migrate
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The Anasazi
The Anasazi ("Ancient Ones"), thought to be ancestors of the modern Pueblo Indians, inhabited the Four Corners country of southern Utah, southwestern Colorado, northwestern New Mexico, and northern Arizona from about A.D. 200 to A.D. 1300, leaving a heavy accumulation of house remains and debris. -
Dec 15, 900
Missionary
A person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country. Jesuits sent members abroad. Mormans and Chritians also have them. The Roman Chatholic Church is big in having misionaries. -
Dec 15, 1250
Joint-stock company
A joint-stock company is a business entity where different stocks can be bought and owned by shareholders. Each shareholder owns company stock in proportion. This allows for the unequal ownership of a business with some shareholders owning a bigger proportion of a company than others do. Shareholders are able to transfer their shares to others without any effects to the continued existence of the company. Sharecroppers where who was involved. -
Dec 15, 1492
Mission
An organized effort for the propagation of the Christian faith. Christians started the practice of going on missions. Very popular with mormans present day. Missionaries are who was involved. -
Dec 8, 1521
Aztecs
The Aztecs are a tribe, according to their own legends, from Aztlan somewhere in the north of modern Mexico. From this place, which they leave in about the 12th century AD, there derives the name Aztecs by which they are known to western historians. -
Dec 15, 1558
Separatist
A person who supports the separation of a particular group of people from a larger body on the basis of ethnicity, religion, or gender. -
Period: Dec 15, 1564 to
Puritan
The Puritans were a group of English Reformed Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to purify the Church of England from all Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England was only partially reformed. The people involved where people who had very strict beliefs in religion. -
Dec 15, 1566
Presidio
It is a fortified base established by the Spanish in areas under their control or influence. The fortresses were built to protect against pirates, hostile Native Americans, and colonists from enemy nations. Later in western North America, with independence, the Mexicans garrisoned the Spanish presidios on the northern frontier and followed the same pattern in unsettled frontier regions like the Presidio de Sonoma, at Sonoma, California and the Presidio de Calabasas, in Arizona. -
Period: Aug 13, 1574 to
Samuel de Champlain
Samuel de Champlain, "The Father of New France", was a French navigator, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler. He founded New France and Quebec City on July 3, 1608. -
Period: Dec 15, 1579 to
Lord Baltimore
George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore was an English politician and colonizer. He achieved domestic political success as a Member of Parliament and later Secretary of State under King James I. He lost much of his political power after his support for a failed marriage alliance between Prince Charles and the Spanish House of Habsburg royal family. -
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John Smith
John Smith, Admiral of New England, was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He was knighted for his services to Sigismund Bathory, Prince of Transylvania, and his friend Mózes Székely. He was a leader of the Virginia Colony (based at Jamestown) between September 1608 and August 1609, and led an exploration along the rivers of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay. He was the first English explorer to map the Chesapeake Bay area and New England. -
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John Winthrop
He was a wealthy English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the first major settlement in what is now New England after Plymouth Colony. Winthrop led the first large wave of immigrants from England in 1630, and served as governor for 12 of the colony's first 20 years of existence. His writings and vision of the colony as a Puritan "city upon a hill" dominated New England colonial development. -
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Anne Hutchinson
She was a Puritan spiritual adviser, mother of 15, and an important participant in the Antinomian Controversy that shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638. Her strong religious convictions were at odds with the established Puritan clergy in the Boston area, and her popularity and charisma helped create a theological schism that threatened to destroy the Puritans' religious experiment in New England. She was eventually tried and convicted, and moved away from the colony. -
Proprietary colony
A proprietary colony was a type of British colony mostly in North America and the Caribbean in the 17th century. In the British Empire, all land belonged to the king, and it was his prerogative to divide. The Duke of York was involved with getting new York. But overal the King was the one mainly involved. -
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Roger Williams
was an English Puritan theologian who was an early proponent of religious freedom and the separation of church and state. He was expelled by the Puritan Leaders because they thought he was spreading "new and dangerous ideas", so in 1636, he began the colony of Providence Plantation, which provided a refuge for religious minorities. Williams was a member of the first Baptist church in America, the First Baptist Church of Providence. Also taught by Native American languages. -
Charter
A charter is a document that gave colonies the legal rights to exist. A charter is a document, bestowing certain rights on a town, city, university or an institution. Colonial Charters were empowered when the king gave a grant of exclusive powers for the governance of land to proprietors or a settlement company. All colonial charters guaranteed to the colonists the vague rights and privileges of Englishmen, which would later cause trouble during the revolutionary era. -
Powhatan
They are a Native American people in Virginia. It is estimated that there were about 14,000–21,000 Powhatan people in eastern Virginia when the English settled Jamestown in 1607. -
Quebec
It is a province in east-central Canada. Primarily speaks French. The people who lived there and that are involved are the French. -
House of Burgesses
was the first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America. The House was established by the Virginia Company, who created the body as part of an effort to encourage English craftsmen to settle in North America and to make conditions in the colony more agreeable for its current inhabitants. An English Stock company was who found it and who was involved. -
Pilgrims
A person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons. a name commonly applied to early settlers of the Plymouth Colony in present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, with the men commonly called Pilgrim Fathers. The pilgrims came to the new America for religious purposes. They where no longer welcomed in thier home. The people involved where men and woman that believed in a religion that was not welcomed in their home, so the King forced them to leave. -
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by separatist Congregationalists who called themselves "Saints". Later they were referred to as Pilgrims or Pilgrim Fathers. They were fleeing from religious persecution by King James of England. The Pilgrims signed the agreements that thay all agreed on. -
Royal colony
A Crown colony, also known in the 17th century as royal colony, was a type of colonial administration of the British overseas territories. Crown, or royal, colonies were ruled by a governor appointed by the monarch. A governor was who was involved. -
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Pequot War
The Pequot War was an armed conflict between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the English colonists of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their Native American allies. English colonist and alies where involved. -
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Metacom
Metacomet, also known by his adopted English name King Philip, was a Wampanoag and the second son of the sachem Massasoit. He became a chief of his people in 1662 when his brother Wamsutta died shortly after their father Massasoit. -
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William Penn
William Penn was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In 1681, King Charles II handed over a large piece of his American land holdings to William Penn to satisfy a debt the king owed to Penn's father. This land included present-day Pennsylvania and Delaware. -
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King Philip’s War
was an armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day New England and English colonists and their Native American allies. The war is named for the main leader of the Native American side, Metacomet, who had adopted the English name "King Philip" in honor of the previously-friendly relations between his father and the original Mayflower Pilgrims. -
Bacon’s Rebellion
s an armed rebellion by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. The colony's dismissive policy as it related to the political challenges of its western frontier. It was the first rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part. About a thousand Virginians of all classes and races rose up in arms against Berkeley,chasing Berkeley from Jamestown, Virginia, and ultimately torching the capital. Natan Bacon was involved. -
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James Oglethorpe
James Edward Oglethorpe was a British general, Member of Parliament, philanthropist, and founder of the colony of Georgia. As a social reformer, he hoped to resettle Britain's poor, especially those in debtors' prisons, in the New World. Founder of Georgia. -
Viceroy
It is a regal official who runs a country, colony, or city province (or state) in the name of and as representative of the monarch. It refers to Kings or Emperors. -
Quaker
a group of religious Christian movements which is known as the Religious Society of Friends in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and parts of North America; and known as the Friends Church in Africa, Asia, South America and parts of the US. The movements were originally, and are still predominantly based on Christianity. -
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John Jay
John Jay was an American statesman, Patriot, diplomat, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, signer of the Treaty of Paris, and first Chief Justice of the United States. -
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Alexander Hamilton
was a Founding Father of the United States, chief staff aide to General George Washington, one of the most influential interpreters and promoters of the U.S. Constitution, the founder of the nation's financial system, the founder of the Federalist Party, the world's first voter-based political party, the Father of the United States Coast Guard, and the founder of The New York Post. -
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Andrew Jackson
was the seventh President of the United States (1829–1837). He was born near the end of the colonial era, somewhere near the then-unmarked border between North and South Carolina, into a recently immigrated Scots-Irish farming family of relatively modest means. During the American Revolutionary War Jackson, whose family supported the revolutionary cause, acted as a courier. He was almost impeached and is the man responsible for the Trail of Tears -
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Henry Clay
He was an American lawyer, politician, and skilled orator who represented Kentucky in both the United States Senate and House of Representatives. He served three non-consecutive terms as Speaker of the House of Representatives and was also Secretary of State from 1825 to 1829. He lost his campaigns for president in 1824, 1832 and 1844. -
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Article of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, were an agreement among all thirteen original states in the United States of America that served as its first constitution. Its drafting by a committee appointed by the Second Continental Congress. -
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Shay's Rebellion
Shays ' Rebellion was an armed uprising in Massachusetts Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays led four thousand rebels (called Shaysites) in rising up against perceived economic injustices and suspension of civil rights by Massachusetts, and in a later attempt to capture the United States' national weapons arsenal at the U.S. Armory at Springfield. Shays' Rebellion met with defeat militarily against a privately-raised militia. -
Northwest Ordinance
also known as the Freedom Ordinance or The Ordinance of 1787) was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States (the Confederation Congress), passed July 13, 1787. The ordinance created the Northwest Territory, the first organized territory of the United States, from lands beyond the Appalachian Mountains, between British Canada and the Great Lakes to the north and the Ohio River to the south. The upper Mississippi River formed the Territory's western boundary. -
Great Compromise
It was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States. The convention voted this in by a margin of one vote. -
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Whiskey Rebellion
Also known as the Whiskey Insurrection, was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington. The so-called "whiskey tax" was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government. It became law in 1791, and was intended to generate revenue to help reduce the national debt. -
Cotton Gin
The cotton gin is a device for removing the seeds from cotton fiber. Such machines have been around for centuries. Eli Whitney's machine of 1794, however, was the first to clean short-staple cotton, and a single device could produce up to fifty pounds of cleaned cotton in a day. -
Alien and Sedition Act
The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed by the Federalist dominated 5th United States Congress, and signed into law by Federalist President John Adams in 1798. -
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Nat Turner
Nat Turner was an African-American slave who led a slave rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 60 white deaths. -
The Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening was a religious revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States. The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800 and, after 1820, membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations whose preachers led the movement. -
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Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Lynde Dix was an American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums. -
Marbury v. Madison
Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase (1803) was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. Thomas Jefferson was the President responsible for the buy. -
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William Lloyd Garrison
He was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, which he founded with Isaac Knapp in 1831 and published in Massachusetts until slavery was abolished by Constitutional amendment after the American Civil War. He was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. He promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States. In the 1870s, Garrison became a prominent v -
American System
This "System" consisted of three mutually reenforcing parts: a tariff to protect and promote American industry; a national bank to foster commerce; and federal subsidies for roads, canals, and other "internal improvements" to develop profitable markets for agriculture. It was an economic plan that played a prominent role in American policy during the first half of the 19th century. -
War Hawks
The term "War Hawk" was coined by the prominent Virginia Congressman John Randolph of Roanoke, a staunch opponent of entry into the war. There was, therefore, never any "official" roster of War Hawks; as historian Donald Hickey notes, "Scholars differ over who ought to be classified as a War Hawk." The notion that this loose faction of congressional War Hawks pressured President James Madison to pursue armed conflict with Great Britain is both enduring and dubious. Henry Clay led them. -
Utopian Community
A community or society possessing highly desirable or near perfect qualities. During the early part of the 19th century, New Harmony was the site of two attempts to establish Utopian communities. The first, Harmonie (1814-1825), was founded by the Harmonie Society, a group of Separatists from the German Lutheran Church. -
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Hardford Convention
The New England Federalist Party met to discuss their grievances concerning the ongoing War of 1812 and the political problems arising from the federal government's increasing power. Despite radical outcries among Federalists for New England secession and a separate peace with Great Britain, moderates outnumbered them and extreme proposals were not a major focus of the debate. They wanted to get rid of 3/5 compromise. -
Treaty of Ghent
It was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom. The treaty restored relations between the two nations. -
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. -
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
She was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Before Stanton narrowed her political focus almost exclusively to women's rights, she was an active abolitionist with her husband, Henry Brewster Stanton and cousin, Gerrit Smith. Unlike many of those involved in the women's rights movement, Stanton addressed various issues pertaining to women beyond voting rights. -
Missouri Compromise
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The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. Missouri was permitted in as a slave state and Maine was in as a free, pleasing both sides and preventing more troubles. -
Lone Star Rebuplic
At the time Spain granted independence to Mexico in 1821, the land now comprising the state of Texas was very sparsely populated. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a U.S. foreign policy regarding domination of the American continent in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention. It was used to stop eaterners from getting land in the west. -
Erie Canal
The Erie Canal is a canal in New York that originally ran about 363 miles (584 km) from Albany, on the Hudson River to Buffalo, at Lake Erie. It was built to create a navigable water route from New York City and the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes. It made moving and transportation easier for all people. -
Tariff of Abominations
The "Tariff of 1828" was a protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States. It was for the purpose of protecting industry in the northern United states -
Jacksonian Democracy
Jacksonian democracy is the political movement during the Second Party System toward greater democracy for the common man symbolized by American politician Andrew Jackson and his supporters. -
Indian Removal Act
The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands. President Jackson made alot of Indians angry by taking there land. -
Abolition Movement
The Abolitionist movement in the United States of America was an effort to end slavery in a nation that valued personal freedom and believed "all men are created equal. -
Nullification
Nullification, in United States constitutional history, is a legal theory that a state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional. -
Manifest Destiny
a term for the attitude prevalent during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast. This attitude helped fuel western settlement, Native American removal and war with Mexico. The people involved was immigrants traveling looking for a new start. -
Manifest Destiny
a term for the attitude prevalent during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast. This attitude helped fuel western settlement, Native American removal and war with Mexico. -
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California Gold Rush
James Marshall found gold at Sutter Mill Coloma California.The news of gold brought—mostly by sailing ships and covered wagons—some 300,000 gold-seekers to California. While most of the newly arrived were Americans, the Gold Rush also attracted some tens of thousands from Latin America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Poor people were the ones who went to the West. -
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
The treaty ended the war between Mexico and the USA. With the defeat of its army and the fall of its capital, Mexico entered into negotiations to end the war. The treaty called for the US to pay $15 million to Mexico and to pay off the claims of American citizens against Mexico up to $3.25 million. It gave the United States the Rio Grande as a boundary for Texas, and gave the US ownership of California and a large area comprising roughly half of New Mexico, most of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah. -
Seneca Falls Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". Held in Seneca Falls, New York. Woman and men supporting the cause where involved. -
Seneca Falls Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". Held in Seneca Falls, New York. -
Seneca Falls Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". Held in Seneca Falls, New York. The woman and men supporting the rights where the people involved. -
Limited Government
It is a government outline where any more than minimal governmental intervention in personal liberties and the economy is not allowed by law, usually in a written Constitution. -
Popular Sovereignty
Popular sovereignty or the sovereignty of the people's rule is the principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives (Rule by the People), who are the source of all political power. -
Gadsden Purchase
The Gadsden Purchase is a 29,640-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States. James Gadsden who was the American ambassador to Mexico at that time. It was then ratified, with changes, by the U.S. Senate on April 25, 1854, and signed by 14th President Franklin Pierce, with final approval action taken by Mexico's government and their General Congress or Congress of the Union on June 8, 1854. -
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Radical Rebuplicans
They were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from about 1854 until the end of Reconstruction in 1877. They called themselves "Radicals" and were opposed during the war by the Moderate Republicans, by the Conservative Republicans, and by the pro-slavery Democratic Party. After the war, the Radicals were opposed by self-styled "conservatives" and "liberals" . Radicals strongly opposed slave. Stevens was the man in charge for most there time. -
Fort Sumter
80 Union men 500 confederate. Union surrender. First shot of civil war. No casualties at the sight. few deaths during Unions retreat. -
The battle of Bull Run
First battle about 30000 unexpirienced Union soldiers. In Bull Run Virginia. Confederates led by Stonewall Jackson. Confederate Victory. 2000 casualties on each side. -
Anaconda Plan
Stradegy designed by Winfield Scott to attack the South. early on in the Civil War. It called for strangling the Southern Confederacy, much like an Anaconda. It was never officially adopted by the Union government. -
Battle of Shiloh
Considered the major turning point of the war. The South tried to push the North back, the North got reinforcements and pushed the South back. The battle was a surprise attack. Confederates had 40000 men and the Union had 62000. 23000 casualties. The first war that the Union side actually clearly won. -
Battle of Antietam
Unions George McClennen and Confederates Robert E Lee went head to head. The bloodiest one day battle in North American history. Confederates considdered this a win, even though they took a bigger loss in men then the Union. -
battle of Fredricksburg
Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General Ambrose Burnside. The Union Army's futile frontal attacks on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders on the heights behind the city is remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the American Civil War, with Union casualties more than twice as heavy as those suffered by the Confederates. -
Battle of Chancellorville
Robert E Lee was outnumbered but still won. Stonewell Jackson died. Union lost 1600 men. Confederates lost 1724 men. Unions total was 1700. Confederates lost total 13460. -
Battle of Vicksburg
In Vicksburg Missisipi. Union had 77000 soldiers compared to 33000 confederates. Grant vs Pemberton. African Soldiers served on both sides. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Only battle fought in North. Biggest daeth toll in the war. Lasted three days. -
Battle of Atlanta
William T. Sherman of the union against John Bell Hood of the confederates. Hood wanted to drive away the Union. Nicknamed the l tactic because the way it was shaped. The Union won the victory even though Atlanta was very damaged. -
Sherman's March
60000 soldiers led by Union. Wanted to scare Confederate people. If you tried to fight them, the soldiers would burn down farms etc. Confederacy was sopose to have 10000 soldiers defending Savannah. -
Freedmen’s Bureau
The U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, popularly known as the Freedmen's Bureau, was established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. It benifited the black freed slaves. -
Appomattox Court House
Appomattox Virginia, Lee vs Grant. Confederates where in retreat after the siege of Petersburg. Lee attacked but failed and had to surrender. Union army started with 120000 men and confederates started with 30000 -
Battle of Petersburg
42,000 confederate men vs 62,000 Union men. The confederates dug trenches as stradegy. Union forces attacked supply lines. General Grant starved the confederate soldiers out and forced then to surrender. Lee had to surrender at the court house. Many woman where widows at this time, sparked the womans revolution. Over half the population where black people at Petersburg. Final battle establishing the end of the war. Scattered the confederates. -
Black Codes
were designed to restrict freed blacks’ activity and ensure their availability as a labor force now that slavery had been abolished. For instance, many states required blacks to sign yearly labor contracts; if they refused, they risked being arrested as vagrants and fined or forced into unpaid labor. Northern outrage over the black codes helped undermine support for Johnson’s policies. Andrew Johnson was responsible for the black codes. -
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Reconstruction
Time period following the civil war. the federal government set the conditions that would allow the rebellious Southern states back into the Union. Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson both took moderate positions designed to bring the South back to normal as quickly as possible. -
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Ku Klux Klan
A clan started to spread fear throughout the African race. They still murder and spread fear today. Consist of white men and woman. -
Civil Rights Act 1866
granted citizenship and the same rights enjoyed by white citizens to all male persons in the United States "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude. This benifited black men. -
14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed. This improved life for all citizens. -
15th Amendment
The United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude. This benifited the ex-slaves because it made them able to vote. -
Sharecropping
Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land. -
Northwest Passage
The Northwest Passage is a sea route connecting the northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. -
Bicameral Legislature
A bicameral legislature is one in which the legislators are divided into two separate assemblies, chambers or houses. -
Loose construction
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Strict construction
In the United States, strict constructionism refers to a particular legal philosophy of judicial interpretation that limits or restricts judicial interpretation. -
Judical Review
Judicial review is the doctrine under which legislative and executive actions are subject to review by the judiciary. A court with judicial review power may invalidate laws and decisions that are incompatible with a higher authority, such as the terms of a written constitution. Judicial review can be understood in the context of two distinct—but parallel—legal systems, civil law and common law. -
Impressment
Impressment, colloquially, "the press" or the "press gang", refers to the act of taking men into a navy by force and with or without notice. Navies of several nations used forced recruitment by various means. -
Checks and Balances
Counterbalancing influences by which an organization or system is regulated, typically those ensuring that political power is not concentrated in the hands of individuals or groups. The three balances of the government was who was involved. -
Seperation of power
It is an act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies. Congress is who is involved, it was developed by congress. Under this model, the state is divided into branches, each with separate and independent powers and areas of responsibility so that the powers of one branch are not in conflict with the powers associated with the other branches. -
Mestizo
A term traditionally used in Spain and Spanish America to mean a person of combined European and Amerindian descent, or someone who would have been deemed a Castizo (one European parent and one Mestizo parent) regardless if the person was born in Latin America or else where. The term was used as an ethnic/racial category in the casta system that was in use during the Spanish Empire's control of their New World colonies. Involves Spanish and English people. -
Push Factor
A push factor is a flaw or distress that drives a person away from a certain place. Considered the South Pole on a magnet. -
Pull Factor
A pull factor is something concerning the country to which a person migrates. It is generally a benefit that attracts people to a certain place. Considered the South Pole on a magnet.
